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FM 2019; the welcome screen just started showing HUGELY blown up and unresponsive.

Since today the Welcome screen in FM-15 presents only part of its contents - and this in huge size: This happens even if I rename my modified Welcome screen and force FM to create a new one. It also happens with the Welcome screen copied from FM-16 to FM-15. In FM-16 things work as expected. Welcome screen in FM-14 also does not behave. Opening %appdata%\Adobe\FrameMaker\15\resources\welcomeScreen\welcome.html with FireFox presents it correctly, but this can not be used of couse.

I have sent this mail to Adobe TCSsup: Dear workers in the stable of our work-horse FrameMaker, Many FM users are not on the bandwagon of the latest version FM-16 / 2020, but use older versions (FM-14 / 2017; FM-15 / 2019) and are frustrated about the behaviour starting 2022-02-17. It has not been solved until now (2022-03-07): https://community.adobe.com/t5/framemaker-discussions/fm-15-welcome-screen-does-not-behave/m-p/12755258#M73776 https://community.adobe.com/t5/framemaker-discussions/fm-2019-welcome-screen-not-displaying-properly-again/m-p/11234539#M66507 https://community.adobe.com/t5/framemaker-discussions/re-welcome-screen-not-displaying-properly/m-p/12762305#M73892 https://www.mail-archive.com/framers@lists.frameusers.com/msg70888.html None of the bypasses presented there work for all installations. Use contextmenu Back or mouse-scroll down one 'klick' → List of "Recent Files" and "Show more" do not exist. What normally is listed under "show more" is not available in File

Hello Community,Can someone help me understand how "Show if all Conditions Applied" on the Conditional Text pod?Let's assume I have these conditoinal tags:Model 1Model 2Model 3Model 4Model 5Hydraulic motorConsole 1Console 2--Models 2, 4, and 5 have a hydraulic motor and content related to this feature needs to be shown.Any of the five models can have either Console 1 or Console 2. They're mutually exclusive. I'm tyring to use the approach of "Show as per condition", but the option "Show if all Conditions Applied" doesn't seem to make any difference. What am I doing wrong? Model1Model2Model3Model4Model5 has a maximum speed of 100120130140150 rpm. This is achieved by an electric motor of 100hp (and a hydraulic motor of 50hp).The system is controlled by a Console 1Console 2 which allows the operator to monitor the system speed. Should I go for creating expressions instead? I'm using FM2020.Thanks!

Dear all, Recent experience show that scripts do not behave after wake up from hibernation: In FrameMaker a document is open and one of my scripts (FMmarkers) is used heavily to check and correct index markers. I need to interrupt work now and hibernate the system After waking up the sysstem next day I want to continue work and for that purpose restart the script from the menu. But some functions are damaged I save all open documents and restart FM The script now behaves as it should Can anyone confirm this behaviour - or have an explanation what's going wrong?

I am trying to print a document to pdf in FrameMaker 12, some .cgm files print great, others are missing vector lines. What is going on? I cannot figure this out. I receive no error and this  happens whether I do a Print Book to pdf, Print File to pdf, or Save Book as pdf, or Save File as pdf. This is very frustrating. I cannot post an image due to proprietary information but imagine a car that has callouts to it. The line indicators are all printing out that point to something...but the outline of the car itself is not printing.

Hello FrameMaker community,  i'm currently struggeling to find a way, how to get graphics that are inside an element or get the parent element of a graphic. Given is the following structure: The Graphic element contains an unachored frame with one or more graphics (XML-Output): <GraphicContainer> <Graphic> <xy:Graphic file="xy.eps"> <fm:Frame> <fm:Inset/> </fm:Frame> </xy:Graphic> </Graphic> </GraphicContainer>  There are two options that I have for my usecase:1. Select the frame and get the parent element.I can receive the selected graphic, by executing the following function:graphic = doc.FirstSelectedGraphicInDoc;But i can't find a way to find out which element contains this frame/graphic. 2. Select the "GraphicContainer" in the structure tree and get all children graphics. I've tried to receive the children frames by executing the following lines:  tr = doc.T

Dear friends and experts, Many of you have helped me when I was stuck in a scripting problem. Even if my script suites (FMbiblio, FMcalc, FMfindRepl, FMgraph, FMnotes and FMvars) are not used that much (besides myself), this work built up my knowledge and function library. I share this library with you on https://www.daube.ch/docu/fmaker88.html A complete documentation is on https://www.daube.ch/docu/files/FMjsxLib.pdf  Since not much of this work was really just out of my head, most functions refer to a knowledge source in the comment header:   KLD_Z.FindAndReplaceString = function (oDoc, sFind, sReplace, loopMax) { /* In the active document replace a string by another one (all occurrences) Arguments oDoc Document to be handled,. sFind String to be found and replaced sReplace String for replacement loopMax emergency back door - number of maximum expected finds(will be doubled here) R

Hello,This seems like a basic question but I couldn't find the answer yet:I would like to use the integer value of a parameter to set the value of a paragraph formating parameter (here: number of allowed orphan lines)Here is what my element looks like in the EDD:Element (Container): Para General rule: <TEXT> | etc... Attribute list Name: orphan_lines Integer Optional Range: from 1 to 999 Default: 1 Text format rules In all contexts. Pagination properties Widow/orphan lines: orphan_linesNevertheless this doesn't work: the parameter "Window Orphan Lines" from Parafraph Designer doesn't get set to the value value of "orphan_lines"Is the syntax I'm using correct ?Thanx in advanceBest regardsEric

Hello,I have plenty of documents split as components in books. I have a specific need that requires to flatten all these components in a single file and help a publication/conversion process to HTML.I currently have several chunks of code that succeed independantly the following actions:1. crawl a book, check every component, and open them individually2. create a temporary file that will receive the content copied in the components3. copy content in component from the first paragraph to the last available3. paste it in the temporary fileNow, I've tried to gather all of this and make it work, but without success. I don't have any error provided, and I suspect a conflict with the identification of the doc where content must be pasted.I just start to get acquainted with Extendscript and I miss more tutorials or resources. Thanks a lot for any pointer and tips! counter++; comp.ComponentIsSelected = true; var compType = comp.ComponentType; comp.Co

I have the following Element set up in my EDD:When I use the TrainingManual Element, no matter which Attribute option I select, the Context Rule is ignored: I've used similar Attributes on other Elements without any problems. I'm at a loss as to what I'm missing and why it's not working. 

I noticed this afternoon that a book with a promising title is available on Amazon: Adobe FrameMaker For Beginners: FrameMaker Mastering From Being a Beginner to Pro However, I suggest you read through the sample available in the Look Inside feature.  It appears to be some 49 pages of speech-to-text conversion, and nearly every paragraph has inaccurate descriptions of FrameMaker functionality. I found this gem on p9 of 49 after downloading the KindleUnlimited version of the book: I found this troubling, as I've not got the Layout > Paragraph > Clothier in my Paragraph Dressmaker. But on the plus side, the book is "only" USD $20!   Matt

con al versione precedente di Framemaker utilizzavo un  fmbatch.exe e un pdfbatch.exe che mi permetteva di trasformare massivamente documenti .MIF in documenti .fm adesso il programma non funziona più penso che sia per la differenza tra 32 e 64 bit (prima avevo la versione a 32 bit). Potete aiutarmi in qualche modo?  Esiste una versione 2020 a 32 bit?  grazie cordiali saluti  

I'm not sure if the title clarifies my problem. I'll try to explain what I did until this point and then ask for some guidance from the community. This is the original page on Indesign.     This is what I've done to incorporate the same structure on Framemaker.       My master pages have portrait oriented text frames by default. I've inserted another text frame inside the main text frame and rotated it 90 degrees counter-clockwise. Then I've inserted the table inside of it. I've changed the Run Around property of the landscape oriented text frame to "Run Around Contours" to be able to place it in between the lines inside of the main portrait oriented original text frame.        Up to this point, everything went well but right now I can't select the cells inside the landscape oriented table with the cursor. FM selects the whole table when I click on it as if I have pressed on th

I have a paragraph that starts with an xref and within that same paragraph, I have some text that is tagged as italic but it is not displaying as italic. If I move the xref anyplace but at the beginning of the paragraph, the text displays as italic. Does anyone know the reason this is happening and a solution (other than rewriting the paragraph)?Thanks!

I have a requirement to copy all the chapter list from a framemaker book to excel, as we are maintaining all chapters in a different folder also usig framemaker unstructured version, i am not getting any option copy the chapter list. can anyone help me with this.

My current unstructured FrameMaker documents contain variables (both user and system type) in the header and footer. I need to migrate my document into DITA format. While doing so I am struggling to handle these variables. Since DITA does not support the insertion of any element in page header and footer, I am not able to use the DITAVAL feature also in header and footer.Please suggest a work around to have these variable in the DITA interface and also obtain the same during PDF generation.Please note that we are trying not to use the combined interface of FrameMaker and DITA while migrating and want to achieve the output through DITA interface only.Below are the reference snapshots from header and footer respectively.  

Hi.I want to know if Miramo DITA OT plug-in can be integrated with FrameMaker.If not, please suggest any alternative plug-in which works in the same way as Miramo and can be integrated with FM as well.We need this to create our customized cover page. Thanks,Arpit

Hi everyone,   I am using FrameMaker release 2017 (version 14.0.4.511) and the welcome screen is displaying like this:   I'm using a work computer so I don't know if they have customized any setting. Here are some of my computer specs I do know: Windows 10 Enterprise, version 1803 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor   Any idea on how I can fix this issue?   Thanks!

I am using FM19 to publish pdf, responsive html5 and chm. As seen in my previous post I have created a new Heading 1clone paragraph style, to have the possibility to start on a new html5 page if desired. In the document this new cloned heading looks just like the original, but not in the TOC. How is a new Heading 1cloneTOC style created the correct way? (To look and act the same way as Heading 1TOC.) My related forum threads:https://community.adobe.com/t5/framemaker-discussions/navigation-panel-problem-responsible-html5/m-p/12775396https://community.adobe.com/t5/framemaker-discussions/toc-problems-fm2019-poor-indentation-etc/m-p/12783795

I'm trying to generate Responsive HTML5 output using the Publish command in FrameMaker and some of the cross references are broken. Whether the link works depends on the order of the files in the FrameMaker book. If the cross reference links to a file later in the book, it works. If the cross reference links to a previous file, the link is broken. Has anyone had a similiar issue and found a fix?

I want to use an index entry and subentry.  However, when I add the index marker, I get page numbers for both the topic and subtopic. I have tried to add <$nopage> before and after the subentry, but still get a page #. Examples: Assignment Creation; <$nopage>See Associate Assignment Assignment Creation:<$nopage>See Associate Assignment I am trying to get a page number for Assignment Creation and no page number for See Associate Assignment.

Whenever I generate pdf fonts getting corrupted.  After I uncheck the box of Rely on system fonts the isssue gets resolved. But everytime I start frame maker I have to uncheck the box manually.     

Hi, I am testing FM 2020 for DITA1.2. While choosing save as PDF option for my BookMap my PDF output is not picking up the templates from below area. However, this was happening in FM 2017. <Fm_install_location>\Structure\xml\DITA\outputTemplates Please suggest what additional change is required to be done.

I've been working with a translator to have a chapter in a manual translated. The translator said that he could handle FrameMaker files (we usually copied and pasted into Word), so I sent him both an FM and a MIF file of the chapter. For some reason, FrameMaker 2017 wouldn't open the FM file that he returned to me, so I opened the MIF file that he sent, saved that to a FM file, and placed that into the book. I tried doing a Save As to get a PDF of the book three times. Each time, FrameMaker was busy as though it were printing a PDF, but the little Adobe Distiller menu never appeared, and the PDF never printed. The first few attempts, I closed FrameMaker after 45 minutes of waiting (the document has taken no more than 12 or 15 minutes in the past). Last night, I left FrameMaker running when I left, and it was still running when I returned this morning. I tried to do some troubleshooting. When I went to print a different chapter, one that I created (this one has no links or images), a di